George Eastman

Now that the lost 40-minute film footage Orson Welles created for his production of the William Gillette farce, "Too Much Johnson," had been found, restored, presented and praised -- could an a stage production of Welles' vision happen? Perhaps a Connecticut theater could step up to the plate. After all, Welles created it in 1938 for a little summer theater in the Stony Creek section of Branford. (Most people know it as the former Stony Creek Puppet House.) And the Hartford born-and died Gillette was one the country's most popular playwrights and leading actors of the late 19th and early 20th Century. (His most well known plays are "Sherlock Holmes" and...

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